13.-Delivered to die for the sins of the world.

Isaiah liii. 5.—

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But He was wounded 1 for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities:

The chastisement of our peace was upon Him ;
And with His stripes we are healed.

8.-For He was cut off out of the land of the living
For the transgression of My people was He stricken.

Zechariah xiii. 1.

In that day there shall be a fountain opened

To the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

For sin and for uncleanness.

Daniel ix. 26.—And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself.

Burnt offering and sin offering hast Thou not required.
Then said I, Lo, I come:

In the volume of the book it is written of me,

I delight to do Thy will, O my God:

Yea, Thy law is within my heart.

Isaiah 1. 5.

The Lord God hath opened mine ear,

And I was not rebellious,-neither turned away back.

(See also Isaiah liii. 10, 11.)

1 Literally-pierced.

Compare this passage with Zech. xii. 10; and

Psalm xxii. 16 with John xix. 37.

2 Meaning, I was attentive, or willing. See Note V.

1 Peter iii. 18.-For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.

Acts ii. 23.—Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.--(See also Romans viii. 32.)

1 Peter i. 18.-Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,...... 19.-But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

(See also ver. 20, 21; 1 John i. 7; v. 6; Heb. ix. 13, 14.)

Romans iv. 25.—Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

(See also John xi. 49-52; xix. 16.)

John iv. 34.-Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work.

John x. 17, 18.-Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.

Matthew xx. 28,-Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.

Matthew xxvi. 39.-O My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou wilt.

15.-Crucified with Malefactors.

Psalm xxii. 16.—

They pierced My hands and My feet.

Zechariah xii. 10.

And they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced.

Zechariah xiii. 7.

Awake, O sword, against My shepherd,

And against the man that is My fellow, saith the Lord of Hosts.

Isaiah liii. 12.—

And He was numbered with the transgressors;

And He bare the sin of many.

16.-His Garments parted, and lots cast for His Vesture.

Psalm xxii. 18.

They part My garments among them,

And cast lots upon My vesture.

17.-Gall and Vinegar given Him to drink.

Psalm lxix. 21.

They gave Me also gall for My meat;

And in My thirst they gave Me vinegar 1 to drink.

1 Mark says "Wine;" and Barnes remarks that it was the common acid wine drunk by the Roman soldiers, of which John says (xix. 29), "there was a vessel set full." This, mixed with myrrh, wormwood, or some intensely

John xix. 18.-Where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. 34.-But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and forthwith came thereout blood and water. 37.-And again another Scripture saith, They shall look on Him whom they pierced.

Acts ii. 36.-Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. (See also Acts xx. 28, and Rom. viii. 34.)

Luke xxiii. 33.-And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

(See also ver. 18, 19, and Mark xv. 27, 28.)

John xix. 23, 24.-Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also His coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted My raiment among them, and for My vesture they did cast lots.

Matthew xxvii. 34.—They gave Him vinegar1 to drink, mingled with gall: and when He had tasted thereof, He would not drink. 48. And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave Him to drink.

bitter drug, was given to stupify the senses to pain, and therefore our Lord would not taste it, as He was unwilling to blunt the pains of dying; though He afterwards drank the sour wine unmedicated.